San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, (1994). First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 75 copies (unnumbered), elephant folio size, 156 pp., with numerous specimens in a custom box, with prospectus and "El Paso keepsake", signed by James Linden. A tour de force of the ephemeral printing of the..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1922. Gill, Eric; Jones, David. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 400 copies (unnumbered), duodecimo size, 115 pp., in a custom clamshell case. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of..... More
[Boston]: [The Merrymount Press (D. B. Updike)], [1904]. Hardcover. Octavo size, 98 pp., "Note on [the] New Type" loosely laid in. Michelagnolo (now spelled "Michelangelo") di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) has likely been the artist with the most pervasive influence on Western art. Not only his sculptures (the "Pieta" and..... More
San Francisco: Porpoise Bookshop, printed by Henry Evens at the Peregrine Press, 1962. Barton, Rick. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 75 copies, loose folio leaves in a paper wrap, elephant folio size, with 8 leaves total. This collection of prints is by Rick Barton, about whom little is known..... More
San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 10 of 60 copies, sixteenmo size, [11] pp. Poet and playwright George Sterling (1869-1926) was much acclaimed on the Pacific coast; a prolific poet, Sterling was part of the group of writers and artists in the San Francisco Bay Area..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1919. Gill, Eric. First Edition. Wraps. Twenty-fourmo size, 28 pp. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of the Press was "a disused stable", with a hundred-year-old Stanhope hand-press which..... More
Santa Rosa: Nawakum Press, 2010. Cranmer, Keith. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 20 deluxe copies, quarto size, [32] pp., signed by Robert Bly, with extra print signed by Cranmer, in a clamshell box. An early publication by the Nawakum Press run by the inimitable David Pascoe, whose name has become..... More
Berkeley: [Kenneth J. Carpenter, The Quenian Press], 1957. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 90 copies (unnumbered), first state, sixmo size, 21 pp., printed for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) wrote in many different genres including the New Wave science fiction of the mid-twentieth century, which saw..... More
Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, (2008). Van Stone, Mark. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 6 of 65 copies, folio size, [32] pp., signed by both authors, with prospectus. A collection of twenty prose poems written by two prominent poets of New Mexico. John Brandi..... More
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press [2008], 2008. Onken, Michael. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. II of 10 of the Special Edition, folio size, 50 pp., signed by Artist. There are many stories and legends of selkies - the seals that surround the shores of Orkney - their deep brown eyes that..... More
Bolinas, California: [No publisher stated] Printed by Mallette Dean, 1957. Limited Edition. Softcover. One of 150 copies, unnumbered, octavo size, unpaginated [126 pp.]. A deceptively simple book of poetry by three SF Bay Area poets and showing a decided beat-era influence (Ginsberg's "Howl" having been published just two years prior)..... More
[New York]: The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art [printed at The Grenfell Press], 1991. Condo, George. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 160 copies, folio size, [88] pp., signed by William S. Burroughs and George Condo. William Seward Burroughs II (1914-1997) is "widely considered a...... More
Llandogo, Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, 2012. Pusch, Steffi. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 5 of 100, folio size, [40] pp., signed by S.J. Butler and Steffi Pusch. "The Swimmer" first appeared in "The Warwick Review" and was then selected for "The Best British Short Stories 2011" published by Salt; this..... More
San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1995. First and Limited Edition. No binding. First Greenwood Press edition, one of 135 copies, signed by Jack Stauffacher. One of the evocative poems referencing Greek mythology and history by Alexandrian-Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933), a favourite poet and subject of the incomparable printer Jack Stauffacher..... More
Ojai, California: The Book Club of California [printed by the Classic Letterpress in Ojai, California], 2014. Campbell, Carolee. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 90 of 300 copies, quarto size, [53] pp., with a broadside signed by Kay Ryan laid in, signed by all five contributing poets. The Book Club of California's..... More
Los Angeles [Lunenburg, Vermont]: The Symposium Press [printed at The Stinehour Press], 1979. Limited Edition. Wraps. Letter I of those lettered A to AA, of a total edition of 300 copies, quarto size, 27 pp., signed by Turner Cassity and Charles Gullans. American playwright and poet Allen Turner Cassity (1929-2009)..... More
[Verona]: A New Directions Book [Printed by the Officina Bodoni], (1966). Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 108 pp., signed by Ezra Pound, no. 78 of 200 copies. Guido Cavalcanti (ca. 1255 - 1300) is regarded as the first major poet of Italian literatue and was the best friend of Dante..... More
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, [2014]. d'Arbeloff, Natalie. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. V of X (total edition 160), folio size, 44 pp., signed by Dick Jones and Natalie d'Arbeloff. Blaise Cendrars (nom de plume for Frederic-Louis Sauser, 1887-1961), the "heir of Rimbaud", greatly influenced the European Modernist movement with his..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [designed by The Yolla Bolly Press], 2001. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, unnumbered, folio size, 159 pp. After moving from Cannes, France, to Northern California, historian and researcher Claudine Chalmers was captured by the history and landscape of the Golden State;..... More
San Francisco: Lawton R. Kennedy, Harold N. Seeger, and Albert A. Sperisen [The Black Vine Press], 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition published by The Black Vine Press, small quarto size, 31 pp. A "very free translation of 'The Miller's Tale'...all critics are warned that nothing else is intended"..... More
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press...and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1928-1929. Chesterman, Hugh; Gaskin, Joscelyn V.; Lamb, Lynton H. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 375 copies, eight volumes (complete), quarto size, 1886 total pp. This eight-volume set comprises much of Geoffrey Chaucer's (ca. 1343-1400) significant work..... More
[Oakland]: Chez Log Press [printed and bound by Dorothy Yule at the Eucalyptus Press], [1988]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 14 of 40 copies, duodecimo size, 24 pp. Ken Chowder has scripted over 25 documentary films (and one feature film) broadcast on PBS, NBC, TBS, Discovery, A & E, and BBC..... More
Hamburg: Hirundo Press, 1998. Saltzwedel, Caroline. First and Limited Edition. Folio in a case. First edition in book form, number 10 of 25 copies, elephant folio size, [56] pp., signed by Robert Crawford and Caroline Saltzwedel. The first artists' book published by Hirundo Press. The text of "Impossibility" was first..... More
[Paris]: Kickshaws, [1985]. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 120 copies, oblong sixmo size, [24] pp. A lovely fine press book designed and written by John Crombie, who runs the Kickshaws Press with Sheila Bourne. Founded in 1979, the artwork (much of which is created by Bourne) is "designed to harmonize..... More
[Paris]: Kickshaws, [1985]. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 200 copies, sixteenmo, [24] pp. A lovely fine press book designed and written by John Crombie, who runs the Kickshaws Press with Sheila Bourne. Founded in 1979, the artwork (much of which is created by Bourne) is "designed to harmonize with the..... More